MidTerm Exam Terms

Question 1

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 1

Prince Henry was responsible for advances that would make exploration more successful. He greatly advanced Portugal’s exploration efforts.

Question 2

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

Answer 2

In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator, set out with a Spanish fleet to sail down the east coast of South America.

Question 3

European explorers and settlers took plants and animals with them to the Americas. They also brought back a variety of new plants and animals to Europe, Asia and Africa. What is this transfer known as?

Answer 3

The Columbian Exchange

Question 4

What is going all the way around the globe?

Answer 4

circumnavigate

Question 5

A nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean is what?

Answer 5

The Northwest Passage

Question 6

Who was a French sailor that led France’s major exploration of North America? He made two trips to what is now Canada.

Answer 6

Jacques Cartier

Question 7

What is a charter?

Answer 7

A charter is a document giving permission to start a colony.

Question 8

The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure is called what?

Answer 8

The Middle Passage

Question 9

Explain Jamestown.

Answer 9

Jamestown was the first colony in the United States; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia

Question 10

Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves is called what?

Answer 10

slave codes

Question 11

Who is the symbol of the struggle for religious freedom? This woman emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She hosted a bible study class that met in her home and began to question the teachings of local ministers.

Answer 11

Anne Hutchinson 1591-1643

Question 12

The Navigation Acts of 1660 forbade what?

Answer 12

The Navigation Acts forbade colonists from trading specific items such as sugar and cotton with any country other than England.

Question 13

The religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.

Answer 13

Great Awakening

Question 14

After George Washington’s defeat in 1754 he surrendered and this began the start of what?

Answer 14

The French and Indian War

Question 15

In 1764, Parliament passed the Sugar Act which set duties on what?

Answer 15

molasses and sugar imported by the colonists.

Question 16

What is the document that was written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society an dsetting guidelines for self-government.

Answer 16

Mayflower Compact

Question 17

This was a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chest of tea into Boston Harbor. What is this called?

Answer 17

Boston Tea Party

Question 18

Who said “There is something very absurd in supporting a continent to be perpetually (forever) goverened by an island.” This argument was against British rule over America.

Answer 18

Thomas Paine

Question 19

Thomas Paine’s 47-page pamphlet was distributed in Philadelphia in January 1776. What was it called?

Answer 19

Common Sense

Question 20

Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence? What did it announce?

Answer 20

Thomas Jefferson was the author and it announced the colonies’ break from Great Britain

Question 21

Colonists who chose to side with the British were known as

Answer 21

Loyalists

Question 22

Who was the conquistador who left Cuba to sail to Mexico in 1519?

Answer 22

Hernan Cortes

Question 23

A device that enabled navigators to learn their ships location by charting the position of the stars is called what?

Answer 23

astrolabe

Question 24

In 1630 a fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonists left England for Massachusetts to seek religious freedom. These Puritans believed that they had made a covenant, or promise, with God to build an ideal Christian community. Who led the fleet of ships?

Answer 24

John Winthrop

Question 25

A system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade is called what?

Answer 25

mercantilism